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Nov 15, 2025

Finebaum "very close" to deciding about leaving ESPN to run for the U.S. Senate Seat.

ANOTHER sports guy who believes he is qualified to become a U.S. Senator????????

The only upside? I can cast a vote against him. 

 

TWO WACK JOBS Torether?

 

Trump Cuts Ties With Marjorie Taylor Greene, Calling Her ‘Wacky’

 

...AND HE SHOULD KNOW! 

Jewish Food & Art Festival

 

Calling all artists! An opportunity to display and sell your artwork! Deadline for submissions is December 10, 2026. For more information click on this link: https://templebethorartfair2026.artcall.org

CBS Report

 

Trump pardons Jan. 6 defendant who remained in prison on separate firearms charge

President Trump has issued a second pardon to a January 6 defendant who remained imprisoned on separate gun offenses, leading to his release on Friday. 

Dan Wilson was one of the supporters of Mr. Trump who breached the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The Justice Department said in a 2024 news release that Wilson was a militia member who entered the building in a gas mask. 

He pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer in May 2024 and was sentenced to five years in prison.

He was pardoned on that charge in January 2025 when Mr. Trump granted clemency for about 1,500 January 6 defendants.  

Despite the pardon, Wilson remained incarcerated. Authorities had searched his home in June 2022 as part of their investigation into his presence at the Capitol. 

They recovered "numerous firearms and ammunition," the Justice Department said, which he was forbidden from possessing because of previous felony convictions. 

Wilson pled guilty to a charge of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and a charge of possession of an unregistered firearm, and was set to remain in prison until 2028. 

A White House official told CBS News that Mr. Trump was pardoning Wilson because the home search that led to the discovery of the firearms was part of the investigation into Wilson's January 6 charges. 

Wilson's pardon, reviewed by CBS News, was dated to Friday. He was released from prison on Friday evening, his lawyer George Pallas told the Associated Press. 

"For too long, my client has been held as a political prisoner by a government that criminalized dissent," Pallas said in a statement to CBS News. "President Trump's pardon rights this wrong and sends a clear message that peaceful Americans will not be persecuted for their beliefs. Mr. Wilson is innocent, he has always been innocent, and this pardon proves it."

Trump Supporters Hold "Stop The Steal" Rally In DC Amid Ratification Of Presidential Election
Pro-Trump protesters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC.  Jon Cherry / Getty Images

A sprawling legal battle

Wilson's case became part of a legal debate over whether Mr. Trump's pardon of January 6-related crimes applied to other offenses discovered in investigations related to those charges. Mr. Trump has downplayed the events of the attack and referred to those jailed in connection with it as "hostages."

Wilson planned to participate in the riot at the Capitol for weeks, according to the Justice Department's 2024 news release, and occasionally discussed bringing firearms. He ultimately arrived unarmed. 

Throughout the day, he provided information in messaging channels about where people needed support as they worked to enter the Capitol, the Justice Department said. He also spoke to other members of far-right groups, including the Oath Keepers

The Justice Department initially argued that Trump's pardons did not extend to Wilson's gun charges, but later changed its position, saying that it had received "further clarity on the intent of the Presidential Pardon." 

U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, who oversaw Wilson's case and was nominated by Mr. Trump during his first term, criticized the move and called efforts to extend the pardon to cover offenses discovered in the course of the investigations "extraordinary," according to the Associated Press. 

Mr. Trump also pardoned Suzanne Kaye, a Florida woman who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for threatening to shoot FBI agents. Kaye was questioned by FBI agents after saying online that she had been at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, according to CBS Miami. When contacted by agents, Kaye denied she had been there, but still agreed to speak with them at her home. 

In her video, posted to multiple platforms after that conversation but before her interview, Kaye said she would not talk to the FBI without a lawyer and that she would "my second amendment right to shoot your f------ ass if you come here," according to CBIS Miami. A White House official described Kaye's comments as "voicing her displeasure with the FBI using curt language," and said that it was "clearly a case of disfavored First Amendment political speech being prosecuted and an excessive sentence." 

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Nov 14, 2025

Coming up!!!!!!!!



 "We had created in this moment a very brand new thing called a citizen, and this has had powerful effects," he said. "It's going to set in motion revolutions for the next two plus centuries, all around the world, all attempting to sort of give a new expression to this idea that all men are created equal, that they're endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and that's a big, big deal in world history."

Airing on APT/PBS Sunday.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ken-burns-american-revolution-cbs-news-interview/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us 

Nov 13, 2025

Federal Jobs

 

Trump says United States doesn’t have people with ‘certain talents’ to fill jobs domestically

Nov 11, 2025

200 Years after a mass execution of Native Americans in Alabama.

The largest mass execution in Alabama history may have been Nov. 11, 1825. On that day, six Native Americans, including Tuscoona Fixico, Dancing Rabbit, Chilancha and three others not identified, were hanged for murder.

In his book "The Second Creek War," writer John H. Ellison states Tuscoona Fixico led rebel warriors in a series of ambushes intended to isolate Fort Wilson.

Nov 10, 2025

KIM DAVIS

 NO

NO

NO

NO

NO 

Marriage

 

Supreme Court declines to revisit landmark same-sex marriage precedent 

 

(Message to Kim NO GAY MARRIAGE Davis:

Go backs to whatever hole you climbed out of, LOSER! 

Nov 9, 2025

Sleepy Donnie ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz

An image shows Donald Trump sitting in a leather chair with eyes closed and mouth slightly open appearing asleep wearing a dark suit red tie and American flag pin in a formal room with American and other flags in background a woman in white blouse on left a man in suit on right and a blue round object in foreground credit to Andrew Harnik via Getty Images.

A closer look at Trump’s apparent struggles to fight off sleep in the Oval Office

A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that the president spent nearly 20 minutes apparently battling to keep his eyes open at a recent event.

Nov 5, 2025

About The Election

 (From a NY Times Editorial)

"Tuesday was a Democratic victory. And the party didn’t just win — it won by commanding majorities on virtually every field of play. In polls, in focus groups and now at the ballot box, the public is telling us something very clearly: Trump is simply too much. If this is an opportunity for Democrats to win back lost ground — and it is — then it is also a warning to a Republican Party that has tied its entire identity to the man from Mar-a-Lago. "

Friday Weather

 Central Alabama severe outlook

Elections

 tRump is a loser.

Nov 4, 2025

HELL NO!

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Trump demands a huge payout from the Department of Justice

Nov 2, 2025

PBS celebrates 25 years of the ISS with NOVA's 'Operation Space Station' on Nov. 5


Never Heard of Him.....BUT........

 Lack of knowledge has never stopped tRump before, so why now?

 

Donald Trump Says Bad Bunny Performing at the Super Bowl Is ‘Absolutely Ridiculous’ Even Though ‘I’ve Never Heard of Him. I Don’t Know Who He Is’

 

Jefferson: Newspapers are most important

 “...were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. but I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them.” 

(Source: https://tjrs.monticello.org/letter/1289?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template#X3184736)

Of course, Jefferson said that in 1787, years after the country was founded, and centuries before a mass media came to exist. I wonder if he would still believe that today, with mass media so prevalent?
 

Nov 1, 2025

Reading Recommendation

 

That’s not a demolition. It’s Southern-style, middle-finger politics.

Oct 31, 2025

Trump + Kennedy Center = FAILURE

 

Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover

Nearly nine months into the president’s oversight, sales for orchestra, theater and dance performances are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.

Happy 25th Anniversary to Humankind

 25th Anniversary of the last time ALL of humankind was alone...on Earth.

On October 31, 2000, a momentous event marked a turning point in humanity’s presence in space. That day, the Soyuz TM-31 capsule launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying three astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The crew included Bill Shepherd, a NASA astronaut, and Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko, cosmonauts from Roscosmos. Their mission, Expedition One, would begin a continuous human presence in orbit—a milestone that remains in place nearly 25 years later. 

Oct 29, 2025

tRump/NY Times editorial

 From The NY Times:

"More than nine months into his second term, the only thing predictable about Mr. Trump’s handling of global affairs is that it will be an unpredictable mix of instinct, grievance and ego. And there is little evidence that his tantrums, swerves and reversals are strategic and thought-out, as his supporters sometimes insist, rather than the products of impulsivity, mood and circumstance.

Either way, foreign leaders and ambassadors know to remain wary at all times, with one saying the other day that he enters the Oval Office with the kind of caution needed if there were sticks of unexploded dynamite under the couch cushions."

 

Save Classical Music Stations

  "Collectively, public radio stations are corralling listeners’ attention to Public Radio Music Day on Oct. 29, an attempt to raise crucial funds as well as awareness of the breadth of “non-commercial” music broadcast by public radio, such as classical, jazz, blues and bluegrass. The loss of public stations could be considered akin to the closure of a boundless museum of American music."

Source: Washington Post story HERE

Oct 28, 2025

CNN Report----did tRump get to him?

 Construction workers, bottom right, stand atop the US Treasury building and watch as demolition work continues on the East Wing of the White House on Thursday, October 23. The demolition is part of President Donald Trump's plan to build a ballroom on the eastern side of the White House.

Report: CNN’s CEO told D.C. staffers to “ease up” on coverage of Trump’s East Wing demolition →

“…staffers were taken aback the next morning, when [Mark] Thompson suggested during the daily network editorial call that it should ease up on covering Trump’s East Wing demolition, claiming that their viewership isn’t all that interested in the story, according to two people familiar with the matter.”

Oct 25, 2025

More tRump

 

 "This is just one more assault on the American psyche. One wearies. This is as Trump would have it. Throw everything at the people until they can no longer muster outrage. Each objectionable action — from invading and militarizing cities to dropping bombs on small boats — merges with all the others into one prolonged scream that no one can hear."

(From a column by Kathleen Parker in The Washington Post)